Re: the war on trailing whitespace

Andrew Morton [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks.  But it defaults to nowarn.  Nobody will turn it on and nothing
improves.

This WS is clearly a policy, and while I personally agree that
it is a _good_ policy, I am a bit hesitant to hardcode this
stricter policy as the default to lower level tools.

I have a feeling that Linus is saying that pre-applypatch hook
is good enough, and you have to educate people who feed things
to you ;-)